Carola Gruber

Carola Gruber (born 1983 in Bonn) is a German author.

Life Carola Gruber studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism, as well as Comparative literature, in Hildesheim, Berlin, and Montreal. She earned her doctorate in Literary Studies at LMU Munich. Gruber received several awards supporting emerging authors and was a finalist for the Floriana Literature Prize. In addition to her individual publications, she has contributed to various literary magazines, including Am Erker, Außer.dem, lit, and poet. She lives in Munich, where she also teaches courses in creative writing.

Individual publications Everything in its place, Poetenladen Publishing, Leipzig, 2008 Stoffelhoppel's Downfall, Edition Ranis, Ranis, 2012 Events in Brief: Narratological Investigations into the Eventfulness of Extreme Prose by Thomas Bernhard, Ror Wolf, and Helmut Heißenbüttel, Transcript Publishing, Bielefeld, 2013

Awards and honors 2011/2012: City Writer of Ranis 2012: City Writer of Schwaz 2015: City Writer of Rottweil 2016: Literary Scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria for the novel project Alles über Zebras 2018: Würth-Literaturpreis Prize for the text Schon gut 2018: Literaturpreis Prenzlauer Berg Prize (3rd place) for the text Sportsfreundin 2018: erostepost Literature Prize 2021: Writer in Residence (City Writer) in Gelsenkirchen